Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Of course I get hurt.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.